[1] The emperour Maximilian was present with the king,The emperor [...]courageth his Almans to plaie the men. and ware saint Georges crosse, greatlie in|couraging the Almans to shew themselues like men, sith the place was fortunate to him and them, to trie the chance of battell in: as they might call to remembrance by the victorie there obteined against the Frenchmen a foure and twentie yeares past. This incounter chancing thus on the sixtéenth daie of August, being tuesdaie, in this fift yeare of king Henries reigne, which was the yeare after the incar|nation 1513,The battell of spurres. was called the battell Des esprons, by the Frenchmen themselues, that is to saie, the bat|tell of spurres: forsomuch as they in stéed of sword and lance vsed their spurres, with all might and maine to pricke foorth their horsses to get out of dan|ger; so that in them was verefied the old prouerbe, One paire of heeles is worth two paire of hands.